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J. H. HOLMGREEN.

RAILWAY'TRAOK JOINT.

Patented May 22,1883.

wmfiz UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS 11. HOLMGREEN, on MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR To HIMSELF AND ROBERT BLOSS, F SAME PLACE.

RAI LWAY-TRACK J 0 INT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,016, dated May 22, 1883.

Application filed October 18, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that i, JULIUS H. HoLMGaEEN. of Muskegon, in the county of Muskegon and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Railway-Track Joints; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form apart of this specification.

[O The nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of railway-track joints, by means of which all tendency to the lamination ot' the adjoining ends of the rails is avoided.

1 The invention consists in the employment of an auxiliary plate centrally situated with relation to said joint, and upon the outer side thereof, of the proper shape to receive the tread of the wheel at a point just prior to reaching the joint, so that the wheel is carried over thejoint slightly above the ends of the rails and without touching them.

Figure l is a perspective view of my improvedrailway-track joint. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same, the rail being in section. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same,

showing the position of the wheel in passing the joint. Fig. 4 is an end elevation, showing the guard-plate detached. Fig. 5 is a side ele- 0 vation of the guard-plate and fish-plate detached. Fig.6 is an end elevation of the guardplate alone. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, which form 5 a part of this specification, A A represent two rails resting upon ties, as usual, with their ends in close proximity and secured together by the fish-plate B and bolts '0 in the wellknown manner. 1) is 7 an auxiliary plate of sufficient height that the lower edge, which is 4o straight, may rest upon' the foot of the rails, while the upper edge, which is curved, as shown, at its highest point, projects slightly above the upper face of the rails, so that when in place every wheel of the passing train will be carried over thejoint by the curved upper surface of the plate. This plate is slightly grooved, as shown in the drawings, to lit the side of the head of the rail, and is secured to the rails by means of two of the bolts 0, which assist in holding the fish-plate in place.

' I am aware of the reissued Patent No.2,767 and the Patent No. 182,627, and lay no claim to the construction shown therein. My device differs from those shown in said patents, 5 inasmuch as it can be appliedon the outside of an ordinary fish-plate and already in use, whereas in the patents referred to the fishplate has to he removed. Moreover, by my plan, when the bearing-plate is worn out it can be removed and a new one substituted without renewing the fish-plate; but in the patents referred to when the bearing-surface is worn out and has to be removed and renewed, the part forming the fish-plate has also to be renewed.

\Vhat I claim as my invention is- In a railway-track joint, and in combination with the rails A A, fish-plate 'B, and securingholts U, as ordinarily constructed, the auxiliary plate I), having an oval upper surface c with the highest point opposite the joint and bearing on the base of the two rails, and the securing-bolts C, as and for the purposes set forth.

JULIUS H. HOLMGREEN. Witnesses E. S. HOGAN, M. MICHENERS. 

